Written by

Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm

There you were, at 3 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving, and the Black Friday line stretched a mile in front of you.

What, exactly, possessed you to get out of your warm bed to stand in line? Was it the sale, the thrill of the hunt or something else? Read the new book "Bargain Fever," by Mark Ellwood (Penguin Portfolio, $26.95, 278 pages), and you could say it's all in your head. ...